Carriage-curtain-patch fastener.



VILLIAM II. VALTER AND FREEMAN XVALTER, OF DALLAS CITY, ILLINOIS.

CARRIAGE-CURTAlN-PATCH FASTEN ER.

SYECIFICATION'forrning part of Letters Patent No. 638,778, dated December 12, 1899.

Application led September 21, 1899. Serial No. 731,185. (No model.)

To all whom t 77u03/ concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. WALTER and FREEMAN WALTER, citizens of the United States, residing at Dallas City, in the county of Hancock and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Carriage-Curtain-Patch Fastener, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to carriage-curtainpatch fasteners, the object in View being to provide a simple and eflicient fastening device for securing patches to carriage-curtains at the points and in places where the ordinary eyelets have been torn therefrom.

It frequently happens that a metallic eyelet on a carriage-curtain becomes torn from its place through rough handling of the curtain, and the hole resulting from the tearing out of the eyelet is so large that it is impossible to secure the same eyelet in place without the aid of a patch. This patch ordinarily is applied to the curtain and held in place thereon by stitching to the body of the curtain. The present invention aims to overcome this difculty by providing a fastening device of novel construction by means of which a patch of suitable size, carrying an eyelet, may be quickly and securely fastened over the torn hole in the curtain, so that the new eyelet will occupy the proper position for effective engagement with the button on the carriage body or cover.

The detailed objects and advantages of the invention will appear more fully in the course of the subjoined description.

The invention consists in a patch-fastener for carriage-curtains embodying certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, and illustrated in the drawings and incorporated in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the fastening-frame, looking toward the inner side thereof. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the clamp-frame. Fig. 3 is a sectional view through a curtain, showing apatch applied thereto by the improved patchfastener. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail section showing the fastening-frame and clamp-frame with a portion of the patch and curtain held between the same. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a fragment of curtain after the patch has been applied.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The fastening-frame (indicated at l) is of skeleton form and constructed, preferably, of sheet metal. This frame is shown for convenience as of rectangular form; but said frame maybe round, oval, or other shape without departing from the principle of the invention hereinafter disclosed.

In carrying out the present invention the fastening-frame l is provided with a peripheral inturned biting-flange 2, which extends entirely around the outer edge of the frame. The biting-liange 2 is preferably turned inward at a right angle to the body portion of the frame and is designed to bite into the curtain around that portion which contains the torn hole from which an eyelet has been forced. The fastening-frame l is further provided both at its inner and outer edges with prongs 3, adapted to be bent and clenched, as hereinafter described, for maintaining the fastening-frame securely to the plates.

4 designates a clamp-frame which is of the same general shape as the fastening-frame l. The width, however, of the clamp-frame is approximately the same as that of the fastening-frame, but is preferably somewhat less, so that it may be embraced within the plane of the bitingange. The patch-piece 5, which may be of the same material as the curtain, (indicated at 6,) is cut so that it will fit within the biting-fiange, and this patchpiece carries an eyelet 7, which is applied as nearly as practicable to the center thereof, the said eyelet being otherwise unsupported, so that the material of the patch may ex or give under/the pressure of the operators 1ingers in buttoning the curtain to the carriage cover or body. Where the torn hole in the curtain is not very large, the prongs of the eyelet may be inserted through the curtain and its lining, as shown in Fig. 3.

The manner of applying the device to a curtain may be stated as follows: The patchpiece carrying the eyelet is placed against the fastening-frame l and Within the bitingflange 2. The prongs 3 are bent to extend backward from the frame l, and the inner prongs are inserted through the patch-piece and also through the body of the curtain,

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While the outer prongs pass only through the body of the curtain. The clamp-frame is placed upon the inner side of the curtain between the inner and outer prongs and Within the biting-flange. The prongs are then bent toward each other and clenched tightly upon the exposed surface of the clamp -frame, whereupon the Work is completed.

The patch being of the saine material as the curtain does not detract from the appearance of the same, and as the fastening-frame may be polished, nickel plated, or otherwise ornamented it will not aect the appearance of the curtain or detract therefrom.

By making the clamp-frame of a size adapted to fit Within the plane of the biting-flange on the fastening-frame the full biting effect of said flange is obtained, thereby removing the major portion of the strain from the prongs.

It Will of course be understood that the shape and size of the fastening -device hereinabove described may be varied at will and that other changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the principle or sacriicin g an y of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

In a carriage-curtain-patch fastener, the combination of a skeleton fastening-frame having an inturned biting-ange at its outer edge and provided with retaining-prongs at both edges, a patch-piece carrying an eyelet and adapted to beV arranged directly over a torn hole in a curtain, and a clamp-plate of approximately the saine Width as the fastening-frame adapted to lie Within the plane of the biting-iiange, on the opposite side of the curtain from the fastening-frame and to be engaged and held by the prongs, substantially as subscribed.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own We have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM H. WALTER. FREEMAN WALTER Witnesses:

W. D. CALDWELL, JAMES M. MCKINNEY. 

